Geneviève Cadieux was born in Montreal 1955 where she lives and works. Her work is situated within the ambiguous locus between photographic and filmic modes of representation. In her production, the photographic image occupies a central position focusing on such subjects as the human body, landscape and language. While the majority of her work utilizes large scale photographs, she has also used sculpture (bronze and glass), sound, film and video projections.
Since the beginning of the 1980's, her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, notably at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (Great Britain), the Musée d’art contemporain de Rochechouart and the Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne (France), the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Belgium), the Bonner Kunstverein (Germany), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, the Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts, the Tate Gallery in London, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Americas Society in New York. Solo exhibitions of her work were also held at Galerie René Blouin in Montreal, Kent Fine Arts in New York, the Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, S.A.L.E.S. in Rome, and at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris.
Geneviève Cadieux has also participated in many major international group exhibitions in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and in the United States. Amongst these shows we note: The Venice Biennial (where she represented Canada in 1990), the Sao Paolo Biennial, the Sydney Biennial and the Montreal Biennial. In addition, her work was featured in other group exhibitions held at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada, the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York, the Wexner Art Centre in Columbus Ohio, the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, the Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, the Setagaya Museum in Japan, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the National Gallery of Finland, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Witte de With in Rotterdam, Le Fresnoy in France, the Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea and the Fundacion La ”Caixa” in Barcelona. In March 2002, Geneviève Cadieux presented her video “Portrait” as part of the 59th Minute Program of Creative Time, in Times Square, New York.
Geneviève Cadieux’s work is represented in numerous public collections: the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée du Québec, the Musée national d’art moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris, the Musée d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, the Setagaya Museum, the Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, the Caixa de Pensiones in Barcelona, the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris, the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (Languedoc-Roussillon) in Bordeaux, the Canada Council Art Bank etc... Her work has also been acquired by private collectors in Canada, Holland, France, Great Britain and in the USA.
In 1993, she was a recipient of the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Award, Berlin. As an invited professor, she has taught at L’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, L’École d’art de Grenoble in France, the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts. She is now an associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University, in Montreal.